Chernihiv is the city of heroes
I put my car into first gear and set out. My heavy vehicle jerked and went on crawling past completely rubbled buildings. Changing into...
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Apr 15, 20223 min read
Breathe world
I am patriarch Lubno. They say I am one thousand years old, but ye should not believe it! I am even older. Mammoths were roaming in my...
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Apr 15, 20223 min read
Hug your kids!
Today we were talking with Katia for 3 hours. She is also from Mariupol. She is 16 and has a five-year-old brother. The following are her...
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Apr 14, 20222 min read
Another story that devastates you from the inside out
#stories_of_the_unconquered Yesterday I received a message from the one I was looking for in all group chats of Kharkiv. My Liuba. A...
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Apr 9, 20223 min read
The Angel Battalion
God lowered his head, painfully. “Peter, shall we call it a day?” “No, God, the souls from Kyiv Oblast haven’t stood before the Judgment...
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Apr 9, 20221 min read
It is scary to write "was"...
There was a marvelous enterprise in the Kharkiv region. It’s scary to write “was”. Agromol Fest in the Kharkiv region was a great dairy...
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Apr 9, 20221 min read
Her red nails...
This morning we woke up in Irpin. Anxious people were hastily passing under the blown-up bridge. A girl was crying in her mom’s arms, so...
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Apr 9, 20222 min read
About liberation
The neighboring villages of Sloboda and Lukashivka were liberated. Baba Galka received a call from her sister in Lukashivka, Baba Lida,...
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Apr 9, 20222 min read
In memory of late Ivan
As it turned out, Ivan went to a better place. A jacket-clad man meets home buyers at his yard. The place’s spacious: a cellar, a well,...
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Apr 9, 20222 min read
Ukrainian Calvary
…Imagine you were a mother burying her little daughter “somewhere under the fifth oak tree in the third alley in the park” and crawling...
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Apr 9, 20223 min read
While the bread is baking...
I dream about a harvest-ready field. The one with tall ripe ears of wheat rippling and rustling in the wind, it's full-grain glistening...
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Apr 8, 20224 min read
Scary stories
The boys and I went to a village because of work so that our furious guys could see from the air how things are going there and how’s...
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Apr 8, 20225 min read
It's been a month since the full-scale war broke out...
It's been a month since the full-scale war broke out. My Mum's early phone call woke me up. My mother told me that war broke out. I was...
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Apr 8, 20222 min read
The most difficult work
Last night, I woke up to an explosion that made the window glasses shake. In the morning, I was already planning the next shooting. After...
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Apr 8, 20223 min read
How did the war came
War… Soon it will be a month since this horror began. The horror not only for me but for all Ukrainians. Now I will tell you how it was...
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Apr 8, 20222 min read
Such a long day…
Sometimes I catch myself thinking that the moronic day of February 24 is still passing. It is interrupted by sleep, by work, by...
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Apr 7, 20222 min read
A walk on Google Maps
Today Hrystia and I were walking around Kyiv… “Mom, let’s go to the Golden Gate. There is one little yard there, it’s my favorite. Let’s...
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Apr 5, 20221 min read
First day with no bombs
Today, for the first time in a few days, I slept in. I scrolled the newsfeed; no new instances of shelling. Wouldn’t have to get ready in...
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Apr 5, 20223 min read
They don't know us
I had quite a hilarious incident with a Russian TV crew once. They were filming a story in Belarus, and people were supposed to speak...
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Apr 2, 20222 min read
When I come back
When I come back, I will wash my windows monthly — slowly rub every pane, down to the last speck of dust, because they are mine, and I...
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